[Antennas] Simple Dipole Question

[Kelley Shaddrick]

Today, with nothing better to do, I stuck up a dipole cut for 20m (14.2 MHz)
using 468/frequency. It's strung between two trees at about 50 feet in the
air. I fed it with ladder line (450 ohm) to the house (about 100 feet) to a
1:1 balun and some RG-8X (about 20 feet) into the 2nd floor shack. The
initial swr reading is infinite across the band, no dip anywhere, not even a
little. I suppose since I'm using ladder line, or window line, I need to cut
things different. Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Kelley -- W�RK